Frontend Engineer (eCommerce)
Location: DE, BE, Berlin
Department: Engineering
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Not Applicable
Industry: E-Learning
Function: Engineering

Company profile:
Babbel enables anyone to learn languages in an easy and interactive way. The learning system offers 13 languages, from English to Indonesian. Users with and without previous knowledge can access grammar and thematic courses as well as vocabulary, writing and listening comprehension exercises online and on the go. In addition to the full courses for web, iOS and Android, there are also vocabulary trainer apps for Windows 8 and the Kindle Fire.Babbel is operated by Lesson Nine GmbH in Berlin. The company was founded in August 2007 and now has approximately 250 employees and freelancers and is opening an office in New York City (Lower East Side).

Job description:
We are looking for a Frontend Engineer (m/f, full-time) to start immediately in our office in Berlin-Kreuzberg, Germany.With millions of regular users and more than 7,000 hours of premium content, #URL_8e4e9897aecb1980ec96e296864343a4402263bc440bec39377381446da44dc8# is growing fast while we are shaping the future of learning.You are a creative, innovative problem-solver with the vision to change the future of learning. You are a motivated software engineer with a passion for frontend who loves to work with ambitious colleagues in a challenging environment.Your mission will be to build ground-breaking products on world-class technologies that bring the Babbel learning experience to the next level and to millions of people anytime, anywhere.As an eCommerce Frontend Engineer you will work in a cross-functional Scrum team together with a product owner and backend engineers to enable the team to deliver high-quality, optimised products and features in a short sprint cycle.Responsibilities:Work as part of an agile scrum team to deliver customer facing products in a fast paced environmentExperiment with new frontend development technologies to build a cutting edge user experienceUse a test and learn approach to work with stakeholders to build optimal user journeysLead the frontend development strategy for the eCommerce product featuresWork closely together with product owners and designers to develop the best customer experience

Requirements:
Experience in delivering stunning frontend productsSoftware engineering practices: TDD, unit/functional automated testing, CI, CD, software design and architectureOutstanding software development talent proven by great work results/experience, hobby projects or open source contributionPassion for building great products and user-interfacesOpen minded, outgoing, self-confident and positive personalityCan do attitude, great team playerFluent in EnglishExcellent understanding of current web technologies, expert javascript knowledge, expert knowledge in HTML(5), CSS (mobile and desktop application), cross browser compatibility, clientside MVCSkill in writing scalable and multi platform frontend codeKnowledge about Frontend Performance OptimizationKnowledge about frontend libraries like jQuery, YUI, prototype and also JS coding without librariesBasic knowledge of Ruby/Rails, #URL_a58bd7bd48420a1f4774598bc5f1451bdcc79baee91a357c1d69e8aede501d73#, Python etc.

Benefits:
The potential to change the way of learning for millions of users worldwideResponsibility from day one and professional and personal growthPotential within a fast growing teamA lively startup atmosphere with friendly working hoursCutting-edge tools &amp; technologiesLong-term prospectsA vibrant international team from over 20 different nationalitiesExcellent working conditions with a location in the heart of the Berlin sceneCheck out our jobs page, our blog, and our techblog to get an impression of how we work at Babbel !